Submitted Christian Writings
~~~ Parables for Modern Academia ~~~
New Revised Academic Version (NRAV)
- By Deborah and Loren Haarsma
If Jesus taught on the campus today,
what might His parables say?
Luke 16:1-8, Matt 10:16
There was a biology professor whose graduate student was accused of wasting time. So
she called him in and asked him, "What is this I hear about you? Give an account of
what you have done because you cannot be my student any longer."
The student said to himself, "What shall I do now? My professor is taking away my
funding. I don't have good enough work habits to get a real job, and I'm too proud to move
back in with my parents. I know what I'll do so that, when I lose my job here, other
research groups will hire me as a technician."
So he called each of his professor's competitors. He asked the first, "How much of
that gene have you cloned so far?" "Only about 40 percent," she replied.
The student answered, "I'll tell you the parts that you're missing." Then he
asked the second, "Have you decided what experiments you're going to do next?"
"We're still deciding that," the second replied. The student answered,
"I'll tell you what ideas we've discussed in our lab."
The professor commended the dishonest student because he had acted shrewdly. For the
people of light should be just as shrewd in doing good as the people of this world are in
doing evil. (Luke 16:1-8, Matt 10:16)
